On Thursday 16 August 2007 01:33:38 pm Sloan wrote:
Registration Account wrote:
Adam, hi there
clamAV is NOT a real time ant-virus application. If you copy an infected file onto you disk then is will be copied across without saying anything.
It depends on how you use it. The primary use of any antivirus application on linux machines is basically as a courtesy to protect windoze clients.
When used on a mail server, clamav scans incoming messages for viruses, which is pretty close to real time.
When used on a samba server, clamav provides on-access virus protection for pc clients via samba-vscan, which is about as real time as it gets.
It's a very good thing that clamav is lightweight and non-intrusive by default. I'd be pretty unhappy with a product that wasted system resources constantly monitoring and scanning for windoze viruses on my linux desktop system. I'd much rather use my CPU cycles on something useful, say web browsing, gaming or multimedia ;)
Joe
The thing is that Clamav seems to think that the templates for Krita are virus, but when I run avast to double check Clamav's findings avast comes up clean. So the only use I have for Clamav right now is for scanning my emails for virus. The only reason I need an anti virus on Linux is for email scanning, done with Kmail, and scanning of my Windows.